TE AROHA. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Te Aroma, Wednesday.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2047, 20 August 1885, Page 3

TE AROHA. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Te Aroma, Wednesday.

Tun usual sitting of the R.M. Court was held yesteiday, but the business was exceeding light, there being only two or three small debt cases heard, none of w Inch were of any general interest. Mr Northcroft, froni]\Vaikato, occupied the bench in place of Mr Kenrick, who has been called to the south on important public business. The latter gentleman is likely to be absent six or eight week«, and his magisterial duties will be performod by Mr Noithcroft until Ins leturn. Tlu> chief topic of discussion here at present is the action of the domain board .it their meeting on Saturday last, in granting a lease for a term of y ears of the sin plus water from the spiings in the domain to Mr G. Robv>n, chemist, of this town. Uy the agieetnent raada the lessee acquires the sole right to the overflow on the following conditions : — The first year he will ha\e it fiee ; the second yen he will be required to pay Id per gallon ; the thud and foiuth ycaisLM pei gallon ; and the fifth year 3d pci gallon. At the end of the fitth year the arrangement to be reconsideied. Tt is Mi Kobson'a intention to bottle the water, which lie hopas to pieseive by a piocess he has disco\ered, svnd on which he has expended a considerable amount of money and of time. He al«o intends to largely advertise the watein m colonial and home papers, and by this meaiHberitevoa the fame of the springs will be widely extended. Doubtless it was the lattoi cuctimstance that weighed with some of the members of the boaid when they granted Mr Rob-on's application, but their action in doing m> has evoked much hostile ciiticism, and is very generally disappun ed of. The prevailing opinion «eems to be that it would ha\e been a wiser plan to have invited offers by advertisement in the leading new spapei-, and thus to have secured the night's., possible puce for the water, instead of the nominal rite at which it has now been disposed of. It is much to he legit'ttcd th.it an\ thing should have at Hen to weaken the confidence which has hitheito been reposed in the boaul, the ■•ntMiibeis 1 of which aie deceiving of the best thanks of the community for the faithful and zealous mannei in which they hive hitherto fulfilled tin 1 duties of then othce. If they have unwittingly made a mistake in tins niattei, there is yet hope that they may bj induced to leconsider their 1 ite decision before the agreement is l.itified, and tlicie is a likelihood that a petition will be piosentcd to the chairman requesting that this may be done. Shaieholdeis in the Colonist (iold Mining Company will be glad to learn that the piospects in their mine havo considerably unpioved. Some leally good stone has been obtained fiom a portion of the reef which has not jet been much worked upon, and hopes aie now entertained tli.it something his been diopped upon sufficiently good to revive the drooping foi tunes of the company.